{"id":234,"date":"2009-02-20T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=234"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:28","slug":"tomtom-730t-and-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"TomTom 730T and Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">TomTom 730T<\/span> GPS device today. Very cool. Lots of well-considered features, great design, just what I wanted. I&#8217;m really looking forward to driving around for a bit tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>But then, I tried to install the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">TomTom Home 2<\/span> software on my Debian (Sid) Linux box, using <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">wine<\/span>. Didn&#8217;t work. I spent an hour trying to get around the error message (a rather crypic message involving some file from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Visual C++<\/span>) but couldn&#8217;t make it work.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, TomTom, I do use a Windows box, too, at work, but I was hoping for you to return the favour (I bought your product, after all, didn&#8217;t I?) by supplying me with software for the operating system of my choice. It shouldn&#8217;t be that hard to do; after all, you did come around to recompile your software for the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t more people using Linux these days than Mac?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought a TomTom 730T GPS device today. Very cool. Lots of well-considered features, great design, just what I wanted. I&#8217;m really looking forward to driving around for a bit tomorrow. But then, I tried to install the TomTom Home 2 software on my Debian (Sid) Linux box, using wine. Didn&#8217;t work. I spent an hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,128,28,167],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}